DIANA and CRAIG SKLAR

Young Leadership Award Recipients

We are very grateful for your incredible dedication to the community

and look forward to your amazing leadership for years to come!

NANCY PARKES

Director of Congregational Learning

We are deeply thankful for all you have given to us and the community through your innovation and passion! Your legacy will forever impact

the future of the Jewish people.

It is a blessing and a privilege to be members of the Temple Israel Center Family. A heartfelt Thank You to the entire community and to everyone involved in making this Gala a memory of a lifetime!

 

With much love and appreciation,

We join the Temple Israel Center community

in congratulating our honorees.

 

Pam & Bruce, your friendship and devotion

to our community is an enormous gift to all of us.

 

Diana & Craig, you are extraordinary role models

and assure the future of our kehillah.

 

Nancy, your leadership, warmth and passion

have made Temple Israel Center an

exemplary educational community.

 

"Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing

good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your

good example is enough."

-Douglas Horton

 

Mazal tov dear Pam and Bruce on this most

well-deserved honor. You always lead by example

and inspire us with your dedication

to TIC and the Jewish community.

 

Congratulations to Diana and Craig and to Nancy.

May you all continue to go from strength to strength.

 

"Great are those who give graciously, even greater are those

who anticipate needs before being asked." -Maimonides

Pam and Bruce, Temple Israel Center and the Jewish community at large have been the privileged recipients of your leadership, dedication and generosity. Your deep commitment to the Jewish values of Tzedakah, kindness and humility continues to enlighten and inspire us -

Mazel Tov on this well-deserved honor - may you go

from strength to strength!

 

Jane & Norm Alpert, Shari & Joel Beckman, Lois & Gary Kohn-Claar, Linda Falk, Mindy & Andrew Feldman, Karen & Ed Friedman, Janie & Adam Frieman, Tara Slone-Goldstein & Wayne Goldstein, Jayne Lipman & Bob Goodman, Rikki & Barry Kaplan, Tina & Steve Price, Wendy & Neil Sandler, Penny Goldsmith, Rabbi Michael Paley

To my beloved wife, Nancy. There has never been a mountain

too high for you to climb or an obstacle

that you couldn't overcome.

Thank you for bringing me along with you on this journey,

as you have become such an integral part

of the Temple Israel Center Community.

 

Your incredible passion for Jewish education has inspired

so many to learn, to grow and to teach. I am in constant awe

with all that you have accomplished. You have given

so much of yourself and are so deserving of this honor.

 

With all my love always,

Michael

 

Nancy, Kol HaKavod on your well-deserved honoring.

We are always impressed by the innovative programs

that you develop to encourage TIC students

to become more engaged, open-minded,

& respectful of others.

 

You have successfully met the challenge

of making religious school learning

enjoyable & stimulating.

 

Mazel tov to all the honorees!

 

With much love & respect,

Yehoshua ben Perachia said: "Make for yourself a rabbi, acquire for yourself a friend, and judge every person favorably." Pirkei Avot 1:6

 

Bruce and Pam, thank you for your leadership and commitment to our community. Your caring, kindness, and understanding of the centrality of relationships in building community was, and continues to be, inspiring.

 

Diana and Craig, thank you for the joy and enthusiasm you bring

to our community.

 

And to the education team and clergy, thank you for inspiring me each and every day with the passion, dedication, and love you bring to everything you do. I feel blessed to call you my colleagues and friends.